Genius Hour: Food Science

Final Project

4th 9 Weeks

Genius Hour Project

10 Steps

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Brainstorming

STEP 1: Genius Hour Topic Brainstorm

Click the Canvas button below to brainstorm topics related Food Science that interest you. Click on the past topics button to get a feel for what has been done in the past! Think about problems that you would want to solve!

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Past Topics

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Focus

STEP 2: Topic Selection

Next, choose one topic that really speaks to you and create either a Bubble or Circle Map to brainstorm on that topic.

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Bubble/Circle Maps

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Driving Question

STEP 3: Construct a driving question.

What specifically do you wish you find out about your selected topic? Generate five questions you wish to answer through your research. They must be broad enough to need over a month’s worth of time for exploration, but narrow enough to be answered within that same time frame. Choose a question that you're interesed in exploring for the remainder of the semester. Click on the button below to find out how to decide on your driving questions and to see examples!

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Research Proposal

STEP 4: Draft a Genius Hour research proposal

First of all, what is a research proposal? A research proposal is a document created to show what it is that you plan to research, how you plan to research it, and what question(s) you are aiming to answer in your research. There are many ways to construct a research proposal. For the purpose of this project, you will follow the format below on the cacti.

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Research

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STEP 5: Research your driving question

While you research your driving question, consider the questions below:Where can you gather information to answer your driving question?Do you need to do any experiments, polls, or surveys to find information to answer your driving question? Is there any hands-on experience you can get to help complete your research? What do you need to know to become an expert in this topic? What do you need to know in order to create a product to demonstrate what you have learned?

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Works Cited

STEP 6: Compile a list of sources & works cited

As you look for information to answer your driving question, make a list of your resources. You will need to have your sources clearly identified to help you construct your presentation and final product.

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Let's Revisit

STEP 7: Revisit Your Research Proposal and Driving Question

Now that you have conducted some research, is there anything you wish to change about your research proposal or your driving question? If so, amend (change) your research proposal to reflect this. Be sure to indicate that it is a change from the original and explain why.

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Create

STEP 8: Create your final project

Remember, your final product must match up with what you described in your research proposal. It must also clearly show that you put a lot of time, effort, and thought into creating it. Example: Addendum _____________(date): After my initial research, I found that all plastic water bottles have detrimental effects on our bodies. As a result, I chose to change my research question to “what advances are being made in plastic containers?”

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Presentation Time!

STEP 9: Present your Driving Question, Research Findings, and Final Product

This is pretty self-explanatory. Show what you wished to find out, what you learned, and what you created to show what you learned. You will be evaluated on the rubric linked below:

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Turn it in

STEP 10: Turn your Genius Hour Project into Canvas

Your final task is to preserve your work by including record of your project, the product you created, and what you learned. The post should then include the following: A brief explanation of what you wished to find out and what drove you to pursue this topic, Your research proposal as an attachment or embedded into the post, a link, pictures of, video of, or other evidence of your final product (this needs to be enough so that another classmate could understand what you learned and how you presented it without explanation), Any other materials you used in your research process, and A link to your project with your sources and a brief explanation of how each source lent itself to your project research (this was done in the research portion of the project. Then, complete the self assessment in Canvas.

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Self-Assessment